Trading 212 has become the first retail UK broker to offer commission-free trading for new and existing customers across shares and ETFs on its platform with no limit on the frequency and value of trades.
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The US’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has suspended the trading of Bitcoin Tracker One (CXBTF) and Ether Tracker One (CETHF) issued by XBT Provider AB in Sweden, citing a lack of current, consistent and accurate information which has resulted in confusion amongst market participants regarding these financial instruments.
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Tradeweb has published its latest Monthly Activity Report, which captures trading activity across its fixed income, derivatives and ETF platforms, and reported average daily volumes in August were up 38.0 per cent year over year.
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Banking software company Temenos has announced that Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based UMB Fund Services (UMB) signed an agreement to modernise its ETF administration capabilities using Temenos’ Multifonds platform.
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According to new research from TABB Group, “Equity Options: Transparency and Simplicity are Clearly Not the Same,” with no dark pools, hidden trades, internalisation schemes, and each execution hitting the tape being posted on a licensed and regulated exchange, trading in US equity options has propelled volume to more than 15 million contracts a day in May 2018 alone, as retail customers and firms continue to enter the space.
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